For music lovers all over the world, Wagner's epic music dramas are considered the ultimate theatrical experience. The intimacy of the Swan Theatre promises to bring a special immediacy and intensity to the English Symphony Orchestra's performance of Act I of Wagner's Die Walküre from his monumental Ring Cycle. Many believe it is the single most exciting and dramatic 70 minutes in operatic history, a powerful musical evocation of love, revenge and fate. Find out why when conductor Kenneth Woods and an international cast of Wagnerian singers bring this theatrical masterpiece to life